The goal of this article is to present a theoretical and methodological proposal for analyzing democratic innovations based on science and technology studies and the sociology of public action. The first dimension of the model focus on the initiatives' characteristics by identifying its...

The goal of this article is to present a theoretical and methodological proposal for analyzing democratic innovations based on science and technology studies and the sociology of public action. The first dimension of the model focus on the initiatives' characteristics by identifying its...

Der Beitrag nimmt den Fall des zu Beginn der Coronapandemie organisierten und von der Bundesregierung unterstützten Civic Hackathons #WirVsVirus zum Ausgangspunkt, um die demokratietheoretischen Implikationen dieses technologisch orientierten Handlungsformats zu diskutieren. Es wird...

This article explores diverse views on both the current challenges and limits as well as the reforms and innovations of existing democracies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. First, it argues that socioeconomic inequality, new populism, new forms of communication, and globalization...